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February 10th, 2011 marks a day of changes in Facebook that open to door for brands to compete. It comes with no surprise that we’ve witnessed another set of big changes to Facebook pages, otherwise known as fan pages or “like” pages. The community of Facebook users will never completely agree that the changes (past and present) are or were a good move, and thus once again this is the case. Unfortunately it is not up to the users to determine what they want as Facebook makes the ultimate decision – if you don’t like the changes you’re more than welcome to stop using Facebook, but that rarely every happens. Keep in mind, the new facebook pages will be pushed live for all pages by March 10th. Take some time to look over the new features/layout to get comfortable before it’s set in stone.

The new layout will show a page in the same format as a user profile. Though it will not be as clear whether you’re looking at a page or a profile, there are still a couple differentiators to distinguish the two; you still “Like” a page and below the name of the page you still see the type such as “Website” or “Public Figure”. So what are the changes? Here’s a list: